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While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some
time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been
identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A
mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only
two or three stories. This study looks at mini-cycles spanning the
period from Anton Chekhov's "little trilogy" (1898) to the
"Alphinland" stories in Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress (2014),
including texts by such authors as Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro,
Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise. Consideration is also given
to marginal examples, like Sherwood Anderson's "Godliness-A Tale in
Four Parts" (1919), which can be seen as one story or four distinct
texts unified under one title, and to what is called the "exploded"
mini-cycle: one whose component stories are published with
intervening stories between them rather than consecutively. For
each mini-cycle, the analysis is based on close reading of both the
linking elements-character, imagery, symbolism, and so forth-and
the rhetorical and aesthetic effects of the mini-cycle's being made
up of distinct stories rather than constructed as one long
narrative.
While scholars have been studying the short story cycle for some
time now, this book discusses a form that has never before been
identified and named, let alone analyzed: the mini-cycle. A
mini-cycle is a short story cycle made up, in most cases, of only
two or three stories. This study looks at mini-cycles spanning the
period from Anton Chekhov's "little trilogy" (1898) to the
"Alphinland" stories in Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress (2014),
including texts by such authors as Stephen Leacock, Alice Munro,
Robert Olen Butler, and Clark Blaise. Consideration is also given
to marginal examples, like Sherwood Anderson's "Godliness-A Tale in
Four Parts" (1919), which can be seen as one story or four distinct
texts unified under one title, and to what is called the "exploded"
mini-cycle: one whose component stories are published with
intervening stories between them rather than consecutively. For
each mini-cycle, the analysis is based on close reading of both the
linking elements-character, imagery, symbolism, and so forth-and
the rhetorical and aesthetic effects of the mini-cycle's being made
up of distinct stories rather than constructed as one long
narrative.
This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses
to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach,
this volume covers the main periods of Canadian science fiction and
fantasy from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of
the twenty-first century. The book examines both the texts and the
contexts of Canadian writing in the fantastic, analyzing themes and
techniques in novels and short stories, and looking at both
national and international contexts of the literature's history.
This introduction will offer a coherent narrative of Canadian
fantastic literature through analysis of the major texts and
authors in the field and through relating the authors' work to the
world around them.
This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses
to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach,
this volume covers the main periods of Canadian science fiction and
fantasy from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of
the twenty-first century. The book examines both the texts and the
contexts of Canadian writing in the fantastic, analyzing themes and
techniques in novels and short stories, and looking at both
national and international contexts of the literature's history.
This introduction will offer a coherent narrative of Canadian
fantastic literature through analysis of the major texts and
authors in the field and through relating the authors' work to the
world around them.
Bringing together papers presented at the Academic Conference on
Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy from 2005 to 2013, this
collection of fresh essays includes two plenary session keynote
addresses - by Veronica Hollinger and by Robert Runte - and 15
papers on science fiction and fantasy literature, television and
music by Canadian creators. Authors discussed include Charles de
Lint, Nalo Hopkinson, Tanya Huff, Esther Rochon, Peter Watts and
Robert Charles Wilson. Papers on the television show Supernatural
and the Scott Pilgrim comics series are also included.
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